Di as in ‘Never say Di’ 😘
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I tend to repost more than I post.
Music, singing, laughter, photography, crochet, colour, living in the Blue Dandenongs, leaning heavily Left
Aussie Basketball 🏀 NBL, NBL1, WNBL
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No DMs No MAGA No Crypto No OnlyFans & the likes
Music, singing, laughter, photography, crochet, colour, living in the Blue Dandenongs, leaning heavily Left
Aussie Basketball 🏀 NBL, NBL1, WNBL
Grandmothers For Refugees
No DMs No MAGA No Crypto No OnlyFans & the likes
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Tim Wilson's 6-month report card is in.
Reality:
❌ Zero housing legislation passed
❌ Supported $40bn unrecovered JobKeeper
❌ Voted AGAINST Paid Parental Leave
❌ Ministers called his work "grandstanding" and lacking "competence"
Activity ≠ Achievement
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Reality:
❌ Zero housing legislation passed
❌ Supported $40bn unrecovered JobKeeper
❌ Voted AGAINST Paid Parental Leave
❌ Ministers called his work "grandstanding" and lacking "competence"
Activity ≠ Achievement
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Tim Wilson Report Card: 6 Months of Representation in Goldstein (May-Nov 2025)
A Democracy Watch AU Report: A Constituent's Guide to Holding Your MP Accountable
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Tim Wilson's 6-month report card is in.
Reality:
❌ Zero housing legislation passed
❌ Supported $40bn unrecovered JobKeeper
❌ Voted AGAINST Paid Parental Leave
❌ Ministers called his work "grandstanding" and lacking "competence"
Activity ≠ Achievement
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Reality:
❌ Zero housing legislation passed
❌ Supported $40bn unrecovered JobKeeper
❌ Voted AGAINST Paid Parental Leave
❌ Ministers called his work "grandstanding" and lacking "competence"
Activity ≠ Achievement
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
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The world learned a painful lesson during COVID; respiratory infections are airborne. This changes a great deal - especially the need for better indoor air quality and high quality masks. If there was a single most important person responsible it was Prof Morawska.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
World expert in air quality and COVID wins Australia's top science prize
Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The world learned a painful lesson during COVID; respiratory infections are airborne. This changes a great deal - especially the need for better indoor air quality and high quality masks. If there was a single most important person responsible it was Prof Morawska.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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Chris Bowen calls out Kevin Hogan for only half-quoting the comments of the CEO of Rio Tinto, Bowen completes the quote which shows a demand for more Renewables.
Bowen “…so desperate, they actually have to cut a sentence halfway to make their case!”🔥 #QT
Bowen “…so desperate, they actually have to cut a sentence halfway to make their case!”🔥 #QT
November 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Chris Bowen calls out Kevin Hogan for only half-quoting the comments of the CEO of Rio Tinto, Bowen completes the quote which shows a demand for more Renewables.
Bowen “…so desperate, they actually have to cut a sentence halfway to make their case!”🔥 #QT
Bowen “…so desperate, they actually have to cut a sentence halfway to make their case!”🔥 #QT
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"Children who catch COVID-19 are at risk of contracting dangerous heart inflammation, but don't face the same danger from getting vaccinated against the virus, a new, large-scale study has found."
www.9news.com.au/health/covid...
www.9news.com.au/health/covid...
Landmark study makes 'important' finding about COVID vaccines
www.9news.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Children who catch COVID-19 are at risk of contracting dangerous heart inflammation, but don't face the same danger from getting vaccinated against the virus, a new, large-scale study has found."
www.9news.com.au/health/covid...
www.9news.com.au/health/covid...
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Advance, NewsCorp, Nine radio etc - are all going after any Lib member who supports net zero - on behalf of their fossil fuel backers and donors.
It’s as straight forward as that. #auspol
It’s as straight forward as that. #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Advance, NewsCorp, Nine radio etc - are all going after any Lib member who supports net zero - on behalf of their fossil fuel backers and donors.
It’s as straight forward as that. #auspol
It’s as straight forward as that. #auspol
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Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate.
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate.
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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🚨Fossil fuel operatives – like anti-Voice group "Advance" - are duping cash from unsuspecting Australians by lying + falsely claiming to be “grassroots” movements.
Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public...
theklaxon.com.au/b8jt
Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public...
theklaxon.com.au/b8jt
Advance "duping" public: Top expert - The Klaxon
Lobby groups with deep ties to fossil fuels are “duping” unsuspecting members of the public by falsely claiming to represent “ordinary Australians”, says top expert.
theklaxon.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🚨Fossil fuel operatives – like anti-Voice group "Advance" - are duping cash from unsuspecting Australians by lying + falsely claiming to be “grassroots” movements.
Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public...
theklaxon.com.au/b8jt
Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public...
theklaxon.com.au/b8jt
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The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) includes Andrew Hastie, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Amanda Stoker on the board. Tony Abbott and John Howard are on the board, too. It is anti-abortion, anti-migrant, pro-bigotry and pro-christian nationalism, all cheered on by the Australian. #auspol
Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Eugenics is back on the menu, boys'
Eugenics is back on the menu, boys - The Shot
The new name for the ideology, human biodiversity (HBD), is handy: it’s not just race science that this marketing of biological determinism promotes. It allows for the idea that class, like Murray arg...
theshot.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) includes Andrew Hastie, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Amanda Stoker on the board. Tony Abbott and John Howard are on the board, too. It is anti-abortion, anti-migrant, pro-bigotry and pro-christian nationalism, all cheered on by the Australian. #auspol
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Send us a message and we’ll make to order- a great alternative to mass produced products made under dubious worker practices and lining the pockets of shareholders and CEOs! I’ll upload pics through the weekend with links- 😊 calpurnia.com.au
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November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Send us a message and we’ll make to order- a great alternative to mass produced products made under dubious worker practices and lining the pockets of shareholders and CEOs! I’ll upload pics through the weekend with links- 😊 calpurnia.com.au
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It appears the Liberals / Nationals "problem" with science goes far deeper than just unprofessional MPs failing to grasp climate reality.
Many MPs/exMPs/party hacks are literally part of the fossil fuels scam lying to the public. Help us complete a list...
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Many MPs/exMPs/party hacks are literally part of the fossil fuels scam lying to the public. Help us complete a list...
👇
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It appears the Liberals / Nationals "problem" with science goes far deeper than just unprofessional MPs failing to grasp climate reality.
Many MPs/exMPs/party hacks are literally part of the fossil fuels scam lying to the public. Help us complete a list...
👇
Many MPs/exMPs/party hacks are literally part of the fossil fuels scam lying to the public. Help us complete a list...
👇
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YOU NEED TO READ THIS!
Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
YOU NEED TO READ THIS!
Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It’s the weekend. You should definitely read about the international circles that Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price are moving in, #Auspol
(As well as Tony Abbott, John Anderson, John Howard and Amanda Stoker.)
Caveat: not saying they espouse eugenics, just that those are the circles.
(As well as Tony Abbott, John Anderson, John Howard and Amanda Stoker.)
Caveat: not saying they espouse eugenics, just that those are the circles.
It’s not just the tech fascists. Across the international radicalising Right, biological determinism is back in public. DEI is depicted as contradicting the facts of nature: being an affluent White man is proof one is genetically superior. No program can change that “fact.” 🙄
Read up #Auspol
Read up #Auspol
Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Eugenics is back on the menu, boys'
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It’s the weekend. You should definitely read about the international circles that Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price are moving in, #Auspol
(As well as Tony Abbott, John Anderson, John Howard and Amanda Stoker.)
Caveat: not saying they espouse eugenics, just that those are the circles.
(As well as Tony Abbott, John Anderson, John Howard and Amanda Stoker.)
Caveat: not saying they espouse eugenics, just that those are the circles.
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“Hate is now a franchise, and Hanson is one of its longest-serving licensees.”
theaimn.net/the-hypocris...
theaimn.net/the-hypocris...
The Hypocrisy of Hanson: Howard’s Political Love Child
Fifteen thousand kilometres from the chamber in Canberra where she ought to be, Pauline Hanson takes two weeks off from her day job to finesse her selfie at Donald J Trump’s Mar-a-Lago CPAC. Hard work...
theaimn.net
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“Hate is now a franchise, and Hanson is one of its longest-serving licensees.”
theaimn.net/the-hypocris...
theaimn.net/the-hypocris...
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The Mamdani Moment: Why Governments Must Choose Regeneration Over Neoliberal Capture
We cannot fix our problems with the thinking that created them. The old guard must step aside and make way for Re-Generation.
#auspol
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
We cannot fix our problems with the thinking that created them. The old guard must step aside and make way for Re-Generation.
#auspol
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
The Mamdani Moment: Why Governments Must Choose Regeneration Over Neoliberal Capture
A Re-Generational Revolution Is Underway: The old guard who created this crisis must get out of the way, while governments must choose between regeneration and capture.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The Mamdani Moment: Why Governments Must Choose Regeneration Over Neoliberal Capture
We cannot fix our problems with the thinking that created them. The old guard must step aside and make way for Re-Generation.
#auspol
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
We cannot fix our problems with the thinking that created them. The old guard must step aside and make way for Re-Generation.
#auspol
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
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A brilliant episode reminding us why we watch the excellent Sunday Shot. Wonderful to hear Marie's knowledge/insights re the Whitlam government & the constitutional crisis. Also fantastic to hear from Daniel on how the Victorian treaty came to be & how it can be adopted in other jurisdictions ✌️🙏✌️
On this week's Sunday Shot, we talk to @mariecolemanao.bsky.social about the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam Dismissal, and @mrdtjames.bsky.social on Victoria's historic treaty with its Indigenous Peoples. Tune in at 9am AEDT
The Sunday Shot
The Sunday Shot streams at 9am AEDT each Sunday.
The Shot's Jo Dyer and Dave Milner are joined each week by a roster of Australia's best independent journalists and thinkers to discuss what's been ha...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A brilliant episode reminding us why we watch the excellent Sunday Shot. Wonderful to hear Marie's knowledge/insights re the Whitlam government & the constitutional crisis. Also fantastic to hear from Daniel on how the Victorian treaty came to be & how it can be adopted in other jurisdictions ✌️🙏✌️
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"It is tricky to determine whether Andrew Hastie’s Fundamentalist Christianity or his global networking with Trumpist forces should worry Australians more"
If Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal leader, says @lucyham.bsky.social, it will be for "the Christian Nationalist and ethnostate faction". #auspol
If Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal leader, says @lucyham.bsky.social, it will be for "the Christian Nationalist and ethnostate faction". #auspol
Murdoch’s culture warriors are interlinked with the Atlas Network & national conservatism more and less officially. Rita Panahi is pushing Atlas partner affiliate Jacinta N Price with natcon-ish Andrew Hastie as a ticket. This is part of Murdochista’s job. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
Andrew Hastie: soldier for an extreme version of governing by Christ
Andrew Hastie is a more extreme Fundamentalist Christian than Scott Morrison. Australians cannot let his attempts to lead the nation go unchallenged. His place on the ARC Board is a warning.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"It is tricky to determine whether Andrew Hastie’s Fundamentalist Christianity or his global networking with Trumpist forces should worry Australians more"
If Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal leader, says @lucyham.bsky.social, it will be for "the Christian Nationalist and ethnostate faction". #auspol
If Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal leader, says @lucyham.bsky.social, it will be for "the Christian Nationalist and ethnostate faction". #auspol
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November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Lest we forget.
Husband, Dad, Digger: The Aboriginal ANZAC who fought for family.
The Great War offered Percy Pepper the same pay and conditions as the white man. With a severely ill wife, seven dependent children and a life under the harsh Aborigines Protection Act, it gave him a ...
www.sbs.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Lest we forget.
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Today around midday - I'm sending a special TrueNorth newsletter where I've curated articles & podcasts from our excellent independent publishers & commentators on the 50th anniversary of Whitlam's dismissal.
Please sign up to TrueNorth here #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com
Please sign up to TrueNorth here #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Today around midday - I'm sending a special TrueNorth newsletter where I've curated articles & podcasts from our excellent independent publishers & commentators on the 50th anniversary of Whitlam's dismissal.
Please sign up to TrueNorth here #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com
Please sign up to TrueNorth here #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com
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Climate scientists Ailie Gallant & Alex Dunne educate RWNJ Malcolm Roberts on science, & explain that “in the case of climate change there is not strong disagreement” among scientists.
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Climate scientists Ailie Gallant & Alex Dunne educate RWNJ Malcolm Roberts on science, & explain that “in the case of climate change there is not strong disagreement” among scientists.
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
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Join the almost 27 thousand people who believe that politicians and policy makers have a duty of care to young people and future generations due to climate change.
Sign the petition:
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Sign the petition:
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PETITION
Acting to protect the people and places we love
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November 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Join the almost 27 thousand people who believe that politicians and policy makers have a duty of care to young people and future generations due to climate change.
Sign the petition:
adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au/petition?rec...
Sign the petition:
adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au/petition?rec...
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During the night, Israeli occupation forces released 15-year-old Ayyham Nawaf al-Salaymeh from the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem, after holding him in detention for 11 months and 10 days.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
During the night, Israeli occupation forces released 15-year-old Ayyham Nawaf al-Salaymeh from the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem, after holding him in detention for 11 months and 10 days.
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Good morning. Sunday, a day of calm reflection. A wallpaper capture taken yesterday as the low morning sun gently laid its warmth on this Mute Swan in #Ireland #Swanday #photography #birds #EastCoastKin #Stunday
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Good morning. Sunday, a day of calm reflection. A wallpaper capture taken yesterday as the low morning sun gently laid its warmth on this Mute Swan in #Ireland #Swanday #photography #birds #EastCoastKin #Stunday
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It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today.
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today.
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after